Failure to Connect to Server...

[Guest clueless]

I just downloaded Continuum, however I can't seem to connect to the green zones (Trench Wars to be specific). My firewall has been switched off and Continuum has also been added to my exceptions. Any idea what could be the problem to the failure of not being able to connect to the server??

 

Tracing Zone: SSCU Trench Wars IP Address: 66.36.241.110

 

Hop IP Address Host Name Loss(%) Min/Avg/Max Ping

--- --------------- -------------------------------- ------- ----------------

1 192.168.0.1 <unknown> 17.6 0 0 130

2 220.255.100.1 bb220-255-100-1.singnet.com.sg 13.7 10 10 50

3 165.21.78.25 ad78-25.magix.com.sg 10.7 10 10 250

4 202.166.119.121 <unknown> 9.8 10 10 70

5 202.166.124.234 ae1-0.beck.singnet.com.sg 8.8 10 20 250

6 203.208.190.57 <unknown> 7.8 10 20 230

7 203.208.183.65 xe-1-0-0-0.sngtp-cr2.ix.singtel. 3.9 10 10

8 203.208.149.58 ge-1-0-0-0.plapx-ar1.ix.singtel. 2.9 200 220 280

9 203.208.183.178 ge-7-0-0-0.plapx-dr1.ix.singtel. 0.9 210 220 1000

10 66.36.224.221 ge4-0-6.core1.pao1.hopone.net 99.0 210 210 210

11 66.36.224.41 ge5-1-1.core1.iad1.hopone.net 99.0 280 280 280

12 66.36.224.53 ge11-1.core2.dca2.hopone.net 99.0 290 290 290

13 66.36.224.228 vl2.msfc1.distb1.dca2.hopone.net 99.0 290 290 290

14 66.36.241.110 sls-cb9p7.dca2.superb.net 19.8 280 280 320

 

Cycles: 101

[rootbear75]

Your problem lies in the Hopone routers which have always been a problem

You are out of luck until the routing tables shift.

 

Just go to a different zone for now.

 

 

edit: you also seem to experience problems with your ISP. Contact them and show them the trace and ask why the packetloss is high. 13.7% is nothing to laugh at

Edited August 12, 2008 by rootbear75

[Samapico]

[Testtube]

Actually Root You are incorrect. Most routers/switch gear have the ability to reduce the priority of ICMP ping and other such protocol so they can give useful traffic to get top billing

 

They do this for a number of reasons

 

1 being it helps mitigate certain types of Dos attacks by moving that type of traffic on the bottom of the totem poll to get responded to (QOS)

2 It helps decrease latency by increasing how effiecent the routers/switches handle the important data.

 

Just because you see results like that are no where near a indication of a problem. In addition most of the times you can not diagnose such issues with a traceroute to the server only and no traceroute back.

 

I can !@#$%^&*ure you what is depicted in the traceroute is normal for hopone not because they are screwed up. but thats how they are suppose to act.

[Samapico]

hmm, well is it a coincidence if ALL the people who post here about lag problems have a high ploss count at hopone? :/

 

So if I get this right, actual data packets don't get 99% lost, but pings and such don't always return because it's not seen as a priority?

 

 

By the way, clueless, what error message do you get when trying to connect to the zone? "Connection to server lost" after a while?

[rootbear75]

@TT: well i didn't know that, all i know is that hopone has had problems before, and other people have diagnosed hopone's routers as the problem. basically i'm repeating the same information thats been said time and time again.